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Groups Urge Mendocino County to Repeal Unlawful Public Records Fee Ordinance

Letter urges county officials to stop unlawful practice of charging high fees to respond to California Public Records Act requests FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 27, 2023 Contact: fac@firstamendmentcoalition.org The First Amendment Coalition and ACLU of Northern California today called on Mendocino County to repeal an unlawful ordinance that imposes high fees on public records […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
April 27, 2023
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CPRA

How can I access records regarding college sports’ recruitment?

[…] the requested records are disclosable within 10 days of your request, and "promptly notify" you, in writing, if it will make the records available, or specifically state the exemption it is claiming and how it applies to the requested records. Gov't Code § 6253(c). The agency must also state the estimated date and time when […]

July 21, 2016
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Blog

New 1st amendment case poses existential threat to public employee unions

[…] unions comes from . . . the First Amendment. In a scarcely-noticed lawsuit filed Monday in federal district court in Los Angeles, a conservative nonprofit, the Center for Individual Rights, claims that California’s system for collecting union dues from government employees abridges free speech safeguards by compelling employees to subsidize union political advocacy and […]
- Free Expression
May 2, 2013
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Press Release

California First Amendment Coalition to Tell Congressional Commission that China’s Internet Censorship Violates WTO Treaties

[…] by U.S. technology companies in internet censorship, and the application of WTO treaties to the "Great Firewall," as China's censorship system has come to be known. Testifying for CFAC is Gilbert Kaplan, a trade law expert in Washington, who represents CFAC in its WTO initiative. In briefings to the US Trade Representative (USTR), the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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CPRA

DMV License Plate Records

[…] back as non-existent. A DMV telephone help line operator told me the plate number was not in the DMV system. I submitted a broad CPRA request asking for all paper and electronic records for the license plate number as well as a photo of the vehicle showing the plates. DMV replied to my CPRA […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Requested Email Failed to Disclose BCC Recipients

I am a school district trustee with concerns about a fellow trustee. The district received a PRA request for an email sent from the board member's personal email to his school email. It was blind copied (bcc'd) to others. The PRA request asked for the complete email, including recipients. An affidavit, signed by the […]

November 12, 2018
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First Amendment

Changing search warrant policy

[…] search warrant policy where the affiants or other law enforcement officer who is filing the search warrant redacts information from the warrant in order to reduce the work of the exhausted and overworked court clerks. Items redacted include vehicles searched, addresses searched, and persons being searched. The clerk’s office has the redacted files for viewing.

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Accessing bids for public contracts

I have submitted a request for public records to an irrigation district, consisting of several documents but most importantly a copy of a publicly read proposal turned in my another contractor. The irrigation district’s general counsel refused the request and quoted Times Mirror v. Superior Court. Public bids are read aloud at the time of […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Closed college governing body meeting to endorse trustees candidate

I have what is probable a simple question for you. I am wondering if a student governing body at a college can meet in close session to discuss possibly endorsing a candidate for the board of trustees in an upcoming election? Would this violate the Brown Act?

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

Are a city manager’ meetings with his staff covered by the Brown Act?

Recently I learned our City Manager approved the implementation of a significant change to a public fee-paid service without presenting it for a city council review or approval, thus also without ever notifying the affected public as a whole or the media of the change. Impacted residents were individually notified to comply with the […]

January 18, 2015